Humanitarian Education in Russian Universities: A Secondary Analysis and Experimental “Pilot” Research (on the example of teaching philosophy)

The article describes an attempt to study some concrete aspects in the functioning of the higher education system and its structural components. The state of humanitarian (philosophical, in particular) education in modern Russia is in the focus of research and is studied with the help of the methods of empirical sociology. The author makes use of both the “secondary analysis” of the data collected by other researchers, and the materials of his own pilot studies of the problems in Russian higher education.

the levels of sociological knowledge, sociology of education, the education system, the structure of the education system, a secondary analysis of sociological data, a pilot study, teaching of philosophy in university, the empirical sociological studies of higher education in the USSR and the post-perestroika Russia, the national educational standards of higher professional education